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What do you see causing (say 50%) drop in valuations?
I see stocks climbing a wall of worry at this time with all this pessimism coming from every everywhere which I think is good.
Any possible black swans?
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Plane Manufactures build a lot of planes to customers specifications, it is a never ending process. They install more fuel efficient engines, bigger engines more seats different configurations and the process goes on. To this I say the Aircraft oper…
I think industry wide pilots are taken advantage of; back in the 70's and 80's here in the states there were a lot of small feeder airlines that would (if they could) try to make their pilots fly a tremendous number of hours. This was great till the…
I think this discussion has been blown miles off course. Has any one even looked at the WP article. I myself will never do business at Walgreens again!
The cost of living is high in Jersey
You caught the small fish but you let the big one get away!
Hedge Fund CEO Arrested in Alleged $105 Million Fraud
https://www.ai-cio.com/news/hedge-fund-ceo-arrested-alleged-105-million-fraud/
@Catch22
--- corporate bond issuance..... more or too much debt, and for what purpose?
Looks to me like a lot of corporate debt is in the process of being recalled and replaced with cheaper debt compliments of hot money running from lower stock pri…
We are having a boston tea party again - took 200+ years realize we have a problem!
Steve Bannon's Warning On China Trade War (w/ Kyle Bass) | Real Vision Classics
@Old_Joe
Our own glorious leader has been stuck with the problems of globalism
What Globalism Did Was To Transfer The US Economy To China
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/08/21/what-globalism-did-was-to-transfer-the-us-economy-to-china/
this…
@BenWP: Sorry to hear about your bad luck. I have no direct dealings just consume his weekly hotline on occasion since 2010.
Thanks
Makes animal feed among other things??
C.P. Pokphand Co. Ltd. ("CPP" or the "Company") is an investment holding com…
From John M. Boyd - Fidelity Monitor and Insight
"bonds were (are) unattractively valued versus stocks, professional fund managers had the lowest allocation to stocks versus bonds since the current bull market began. This is even more true for indiv…
Another issue: Somehow they are willing and able to hand out such advice without addressing individual circumstances like age, risk tolerance, other assets and income sources. By contrast, mutual fund prospectuses are loaded with disclosures re risk…
Why buy crap from China go else where.
All the whearhouses on the left coast are full of crap from China that was purchased before the tariffs became effective.
#3 Cory Booker: “There’s a saying in my community that you’re dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don’t even know the flavor.” Cory Booker wants to know what kind of coffee
I see the rule of unintended consequences has raised it's ugly head here. Give the trades, colleges, universities and any other seats of learning a path to more money and they will surely take advantage of it. This is part of the reason why the cost…
How trillion-dollar stock-market index funds are vulnerable to manipulation that ‘could harm American investors’
If I held index funds - would there be an easy way to find out about their voting track records?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/h…
I would think the plan managers should do their own back office work. But then again they might not do it as cheaply as Fido.
https://www.plansponsor.com/fidelity-argues-infrastructure-fees-necessary/
Ragheads never had a solid deal with Boeing, never. They are good at blowing smoke from what I understand. If they have a confirmed deal with Airbus so be it.
About the only thing I subscribe to now is FIDELITY MONITOR and INSIGHT. As @Edmond stated all the good writers have passed on or retired. Most every thing published these days is filler paid for I suppose is by the word. About every thing reference…
Quote from John M. Boyd: "I can remember.” As another investing lion, the late Sir John Templeton famously remarked: “Bull markets are born in pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria."
All I see is skepticism!
Sorry
I removed my misquote
From the post:
"Fellowes said the issue isn’t a lack of financial literacy. Indeed, affluent and educated retirees are more likely to make a mistake than are poorer and less-educated ones"
Some lack reality and say S…
After reading the article I posted several times.
I think Boeing is looking at moving an ever increasing amount of manufacturing off shore when they get their off shore engineering up to speed. I think it could be Mexico India or Russia. Also looki…